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13/02/2019

Dot eu do­main names in a no deal Brexit - What's the plan?

In­tro­duc­tion
EUR­id is the private, in­de­pend­ent, not for profit or­gan­isa­tion that has op­er­ated the. eu TLD since 2003. Last year EUR­id re­por­ted the EU Com­mis­sion’s No­tice to Stake­hold­ers which an­nounced that in the event of a no deal Brexit, UK in­di­vidu­als and.

In a re­cent de­cision that could have leg­al im­plic­a­tions on the use of open-source soft­ware in China, the Beijing In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Court (BIPC) used a con­tro­ver­sial test to de­term­ine wheth­er soft­ware de­veloper YouZi in­fringed on copy­right or simply ex­ploited.

In­tro­duc­tion
The latest de­cision of the Court of Justice of the European Uni­on ("CJEU”) in the Kenzo case provides use­ful guid­ance on ad­miss­ib­il­ity of late evid­ence in EU trade mark ap­peal pro­ceed­ings and cla­ri­fies the mean­ing of ‘un­fair ad­vant­age’ for well-known.

CJEU rules that Louboutin's red sole trade mark is not a shape trade...

On 12 June 2018, the Court of Justice of the EU rendered its much-awaited judge­ment in the case about Louboutin’s red sole trade mark, rul­ing that this trade mark does not re­late to a spe­cif­ic shape of sole for high-heeled shoes since the de­scrip­tion ex­pli­citly.

On 20 March 2018 the UK and EU Com­mis­sion pub­lished the draft With­draw­al Agree­ment (here), which re­flects the cur­rent status of Brexit ne­go­ti­ations between the UK and the EU. The text of the Agree­ment has been col­our-coded to show: (1) agreed terms that are.

McHardy with­draws in­junc­tion re­quest – Is this a vic­tory for open...

After the with­draw­al of re­quest for in­ter­im in­junc­tion in Co­logne High­er Re­gion­al Cour­ton March 7, can users of open source soft­ware breathe a sigh of re­lief or does this with­draw­al give rise to false hope?
When Co­logne Re­gion­al Court is­sued an in­junc­tion in.

Open source com­pli­ance fail­ures can pose a ser­i­ous threat to af­fected com­pan­ies. Here is an over­view. After the first open source li­cense was en­forced by a Ger­man court in 2004, there is no longer any doubt about their valid­ity.

One of the GDPR’s main ob­ject­ives is to in­crease trans­par­ency in Big Data. Sub­sequently, con­trol­lers are re­quired to re­veal more de­tails of their data pro­cessing op­er­a­tions. In­form­a­tion rights as in­di­vidu­al rights
In­form­a­tion rights as stip­u­lated in art­icles.

In a de­vel­op­ment that is ex­pec­ted to re­ver­ber­ate across the hotel in­dustry of the Neth­er­lands and EU, the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (GDPR) is sched­uled to come in­to force on 25 May 2018. The GDPR was de­signed to strengthen pri­vacy rules, pro­tect the.

In a de­cision of 12 Decem­ber 2017 the Brus­sels Court of Ap­peal over­turned the first in­stance de­cision and de­cided that Aldi’s Buval beer does not in­fringe In­Bev’s trade­mark and is in fact not con­trary to fair com­mer­cial prac­tices.

In a land­mark judg­ment of 6 Decem­ber 2017 (C-230/16 – Coty Ger­many), the Court of Justice of the European Uni­on (CJEU) has put a pre­lim­in­ary end to the dis­cus­sions on an­ti­trust is­sues con­cern­ing third-party plat­form bans for lux­ury goods - es­sen­tially provid­ing.

A data breach is a breach of se­cur­ity lead­ing to any ac­ci­dent­al or un­law­ful de­struc­tion/loss/dis­clos­ure of or ac­cess to any per­son­al data, pos­sibly re­quir­ing no­ti­fic­a­tion to the DPA or the af­fected data sub­jects.